Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. The show is archived at: www.gorilla-radio.com. The GR blog is at: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com, and you can find and support the program at GRadio.Substack.com. Financial support is also possible through the Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/PacificFreePress. He’s too the past contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com, (now defunct) and tweets at @paciffreepress. G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media. Some past guests include: M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, Ramzy Baroud, David Barsamian, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Paul Cienfuegos, Yves Engler, Laura Flanders, Denis Halliday, Julia Butterfly Hill, Sam Husseini, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Ingmar Lee, Dave Lindorff, Andrew Gavin Marshall, Stefania Maurizi, Greg Palast, Michael Parenti, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, Ted Rall, Paul Craig Roberts, John Ross, David Rovics, Joan Russow, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, David Swanson, Andy Worthington, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.
It’s the lie that launched, not a thousand ships, but countless conveyances of war; the explanation of the attacks of September eleventh, 2001 has been used to, among other things, “justify” Canada’s current entanglement in the Afghanistan fiasco. Beyond the roughly three thousand killed on that fateful day, many hundreds of thousands of other lives have been effected. But what really happened on 9/11? Hal Sisson is a Victoria-based novelist, former reporter and lawyer, and world-ranked croquet player. The latest of his nine novels is Modus Operandi: 9/11 a no-less fictional account of that day than has been so far produced as fact by the powers that believe the official narrative. Hal Sisson and the ways and means behind “the day that changed everything.”
This week on GR: Victoria author and 9/11 Truther, Hal Sisson digging up the facts on the crime of the century; Aida Mashari and Canada Out of Afghanistan tagging along with the Victoria Day parade; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that’s good to do in the coming week.
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Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Gorilla Radio for Monday, May 19, 2008
Happy Victoria Day Victoria! Yes, today is that one day set aside each year to honour our fair city’s namesake, the late Queen Victoria, Empress of India, Protector of the Faith, etc.
As befitting an imperial fete, the hoi polloi lined the streets of the city to pay homage to convoys of Chamber of Commerce-approved floats, while being berated by representatives of the newer empire, phalanxes of American high school marching bands, their blaring, brassy marshal tunes a reminder of just why I hate a parade. Just why these American kids come up here yearly to pay homage to a dead monarch, the epitome of all their young republic fought to overthrow, however remains a bit of a mystery, like so much about our cousins south.
Those paragons of truth, justice, and the American way have it seems, in these last years, lost their way. Nearly seven years after the fateful 9/11 attacks, the charade first floated by the Bush administration to explain the infamy of that day persists, few yet daring to question the absurdity of the Emperor’s squirrely tale.
Hal Sisson is a Victoria-based author and member of the city’s 9/11 Truth Movement. He’s a former newspaper reporter, lawyer, and author of numerous books, including: ‘The Big Bamboozle,’ ‘Caverns of the Cross,’ and ‘Modus Operandi 9/11,’ a fictional accounting of some of the strange facts on the ground surrounding the crime of the century ignored by investigators and the media.
Hal Sisson’s latest book is, ‘Potshots,’ an examination of that other great charade, the so-called ‘War on Drugs.’ Hal Sisson in the first half.
This week we leave the usual format for Gorilla Radio’s eagerly anticipated 2009 Year-Ender Show. Yes, the year that is almost was, and what a year it almost was too!
So, today music, personal bloviations, and a visit from Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft looking back at a year chronicling Victoria’s streets.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com.
Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
On this week’s show: James J. Brittain is an educator and activist whose writings are published widely on the internet and in journals. He is co-founder of the Atlantic Canada-Colombia Research Group and author of the book, ‘Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP.’ James J. Brittain in the first half.
And; Anthony Fenton is a freelance Canadian journalist, activist, and author whose writing appears at ZNET, The Dominion (Canada’s grassroots newspaper) and other progressive news sites on the internet. He’s also the co-author, with Yves Engler, of the book, ‘Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority.’ Anthony Fenton and Canada Cheek by Jowl with the U.S. in Afghanistan in the second half.
Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keeps us current with newz from Victoriaz streetz.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Eco-Activist Ingmar Lee climbs flag pole at BC Legislature
Having long ago grown weary of corporate control of political and social processes, long time environmentalist Ingmar Lee decided to join the 100,000 strong peoples’ conference in Copenhagen and express his concerns about the destruction of BC’s wilderness.
“It’s time to stop the for-profit logging corporations with their
insidious and on-going destruction of the last of Vancouver Island’s ancient temperate rainforest,” Ingmar insists.
Lee’s protest today highlights the proposed Enbridge Pipeline, planned to carry oil products from the infamous Tar Sands in Alberta to be then shipped across the Pacific.
He targets B.C. premier, Gordon Campbell, ironically the recipient last week in Copenhagen of a “Green” leadership award.
Lee has led movements in B.C. to protect ancient forests, and protest the shipment of raw logs out of BC.
Today, tales of prisons. Beyond the prison-world western power has brought to Afghanistan, in Colombia a bitter class war has raged for generations. Once declared a war on communism and Marxist rebellion, now it is called a drug war. But Colombia’s “drug war” bears strange casualties; its prisons are full of detained activists, and unionists, and indigenous rights proponents, not the dope dealers you would expect. In fact, Colombia’s war today is against the underclass and indigenous, as it always has been.
Kevin Neish is just returned from a trip he took down Colombia way to bear witness to the trial of friend Liliany Obando, a social rights activist wrongly imprisoned for more than a year, and finally preparing to face Colombia’s version of justice. Kevin Neish in the first half.
And; Canadian freelance journalist Jon Elmer, living in and reporting from Occupied Palestine on a deeper newer wall for Gaza, and stirrings of a massive prisoner exchange from Israel in the coming weeks.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUv broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to keeps us current with Christmas on the streetz. But first, Kevin Neish and bearing witness for Liliany Obando.
A couple weeks ago, Democracy Now! presenter Amy Goodman was detained at Canada's Douglas Crossing as she traveled to Vancouver with her 'Breaking the Silence' book tour. The Canada Border Service demanded she and her colleagues surrender notes and their laptop computers after she denied her scheduled talk had anything to do with the upcoming Vancouver Olympics.
Though delayed, Goodman made it to Vancouver, and appeared in Victoria at the University of Victoria afterward, where she related her experience to a packed house.
Today, Amy Goodman (almost live) from the Michele Pujol Room, right here at the Student Union Building.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour with goings on from Victoriaz streetz.
But first, Amy Goodman on the border of a fascist Kanada.
This week, Lierre Keith is a long-time sustainability activist, feminist, editor, and author whose book titles include: ‘Conditions of War,’ ‘Skyler Gabriel,’ and her latest book, ‘The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability.’ Keith writes: “I want a full accounting, an accounting that goes way beyond what’s dead on your plate. I’m asking about everything that died in the process, everything that was killed to get that food onto your plate.”
And; in Great Britain, hearings are being conducted into just how that country became entangled in the Iraq war. Astonishing testimony was released last week regarding secret meetings held between George W. Bush and Tony Blair that suggest the two men plotted the invasion well before any of the supposed “justifications” for such an action were merited. Dave Lindorff is an award-winning investigative reporter and author active in journalism for more than three decades. Dave Lindorff and Britain’s tardy commission on that country’s involvement in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with the goings on in and around Victoria.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Iconic American journalist, Amy Goodman appeared at the University of Victoria’s Michelle Pujol room to address a full house on her latest book tour, ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier.’ Goodman passed through Victoria a few years back on another book tour, but her reception by Canada’s gatekeepers this time around reminds again of the country’s rapid decline towards a security state.
Goodman anchors the most broadly disseminated news program outside corporate media. Democracy Now is seen and heard around the world across modern media. Though it may be a stretch to expect the Douglas crossing detail sophisticated enough to know who Ms. Goodman is, or appreciate how they and Canada would be perceived by their excessive treatment of the renown journalist and her associates, perhaps in the coming days questions will be raised in the House about this latest in a long line of increasingly worrying incidents involving the Border Service?
Amy talks about the incident in the audio, and below is a link to a video interview she gave with the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) Vancouver.
The Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition, in conjunction with the Canadian Union of Public Employees teamed up with the Council of Canadians to bring its National Chairperson, Maude Barlow to the city for a talk on the fate of Victoria’s water and sewage systems. In a broad ranging address, Barlow touches on water issues here and around the world.
The “bravest woman in Afghanistan” delivers her message to Canada. Joya is currently touring her book, co-written with Canadian activist, Derrick O’Keefe. Malalai Joya and a message from the edge of the imperial project in the first half.
Greg McMullen is an articled student of law currently working with the BCCLA, and he’ll join us in the second half for a preview of Canada’s Police State to come.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with current goings on on Victoria’s streets. But first; Malalai Joya and talking war and occupation to Canadians.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Malalai Joya is the first woman elected to the Afghani parliament, and the first woman to be booted out of that suspect body. She’s survived several attempts on her life, and continues to condemn the farce of democracy in her homeland. She is currently touring Canada with the co-author of her auto-biography, Derrick O’Keefe. Malalai Joya appeared in Victoria, B.C. November 15th, 2009.
Malalai Joya is the first woman elected to the Afghani parliament, and the first woman to be booted out of that suspect body. She’s survived several attempts on her life, and continues to condemn the farce of democracy in her homeland. She is currently touring Canada with the co-author of her auto-biography, Derrick O’Keefe.
Malalai Joya appeared in Victoria, B.C. November 15th, 2009. The second portion of her engangment follows.
This week on GR; Derrick O’Keefe is a Canadian writer and activist, and he’s the editor of the progressive news web site, rabble.ca. He co-wrote A Woman Among Warlords with Joya, and joins us here in the first half.
Jon Elmer is a Vancouver-based photojournalist and writer who has lived in and reported from Palestine. He is the creator of the websites, From Occupied Palestine.org and Jon Elmer.ca. Jon appeared earlier this year with a series of reports from Egypt and Palestine, and he’ll be here in the second half from Amman, Jordan.
Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will bring us up to speed with the newz from Victoria’s streets at the bottom of the hour. But first, Derrick O’Keefe and Malalai Joya among the warlords.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com